gloss
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA surface shine or luster.
- verbTo give a gloss or sheen to.
- nounA brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,116 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 15% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: s